I guess it takes a fan revolt to force Prince into writing his best song in years. After threatening to sue his own fans for posting his likeness on their fan sites devoted to him, Prince has taken his tirade one step further: he’s written a diss song about the whole situation. When the fan […]

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So, Thom Yorke shoots down Paul McCartney for a duet request. He is a Beatle, but I still don’t blame Yorke’s decision. What’s Paul done for you lately? Or in 20 years? The Starbucks record? Poor Paul had to comment on the rebuff publicly, explaining how Yorke had said “he couldn’t because he only felt […]

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Tool’s Maynard James Keenan sat down with a real smart-like interviewer from Suicide Girls to talk Puscifer– his new band with former members of Primus and Nine Inch Nails. And Milla Jovovich is involved in some capacity. Here’s to hoping she doesn’t contribute much. V is for Vagina is out now on Pucifer Ent, which […]

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“In 1967 I hired Frank Zappa to score a :30 second animated TV Comercial for Luden’s Cough Drops fot $2,000. We won a Clio for “THE BEST USE OF SOUND”. It was the beginning of a two year relationship that had me filming 14 hours of footage as I traveled with The Original Mothers Of […]

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In case you missed Conrad Keely’s Interscope bashing screed on Trail of Dead’s official website just over a week ago, fear not, as the cached version shall live on, having made the rounds across everyone’s RSS feeder, anyway. The band’s manager, Asif Ahmed, has since fielded questions regarding Keely’s diatribe and the band’s split from Interscope, saying it was […]

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David Byrne goes to IKEA for the first time and makes a video game out of the experience. “Why does everything have weird names? Every container, shelf, cabinet or appliance had some odd name, as if people from Planet Sweden anthropomorphized these objects, naming each one they encountered as best they could”

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I wonder if they’re taking requests… (via Dead Flowers) I’ve always liked Dean Wareham’s cover of Ceremony.

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